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Y2 English

World Book Day 2026!

7th March 2026Miss K. Wilkinson

What an incredible day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day at West Boldon Primary! Our school has been filled with amazing characters from the wonderful world of books, and we have been blown away by the creativity and effort that has gone into the costumes. The children – and staff! – all look absolutely fantastic. From classic storybook characters to modern favourites, it has truly brought our love of reading to life across the school.

As part of today’s fantastic World Book Day celebrations, Mandy and her amazing catering team also created a truly magical Alice in Wonderland-themed lunch for all of our children! The dining hall was transformed into a wonderful Wonderland feast, and the food looked absolutely unbelievable. From the creative presentation to the delicious treats on offer, it was a lunchtime our children will definitely remember!

In the afternoon, celebrations moved outdoors to our fantastic fire pit area, where the children enjoyed a truly special reading experience. Wrapped up in the fresh air, they toasted marshmallows over the fire while chatting with friends about their favourite stories and characters.

The children also had the chance to relax with a delicious hot chocolate while spending time reading their books together — the perfect way to celebrate a day dedicated to the joy of reading.

Days like today are a brilliant reminder of just how important reading is. Reading opens the door to imagination, builds vocabulary, develops creativity and allows children to explore new worlds, ideas and adventures. Encouraging a love of books at a young age helps set children up with skills that will benefit them for life.

A huge well done to everyone for making such a fantastic effort today, and thank you to our families for helping create such brilliant costumes. We hope today inspires even more children to pick up a book and discover their next great story!

2025-2026,ARC,Essential Learning Experiences (ELEs),Nursery,Rec English,Reception,Y1 English,Y2 English,Y3 English,Y4 English,Y5 English,Y6 English,Year 1,Year 1/2,Year 2,Year 3,Year 4,Year 5,Year 6 Article 13- You have the right to find out things and say what you think unless it breaks the rights of others. Article 24- You have the right to the best health possible and to access medical care and information to help you stay healthy. Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 31- You have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports music or drama.

Physical Friday Fun in Year 1/2!

25th January 2026Miss K. Wilkinson

We love Physical Fridays in Year 1/2! These sessions help us develop both fine and gross motor skills, which are so important for confident writing, maths and everyday learning.

Through fun, hands-on activities such as threading, playdough, peg challenges, phonics snakes and ladders, building number lines and picking up small objects, the children strengthen their hands and fingers while also building coordination, control, focus and teamwork

All of this supports better pencil control, clearer letter formation and growing confidence in writing – and best of all, the children are fully engaged, learning through movement, play and fun… just the way we like it!

2025-2026,Y1 English,Y2 English,Year 1,Year 1/2,Year 2 Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 29- You have the right to education that helps to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and to respect the rights of others and respect the environment. Article 31- You have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports music or drama.

Paired Reading Fun

27th November 2025Miss K. Wilkinson

Our Year 5s, 2s, and 1s spent a wonderful afternoon in paired reading. The younger students chose their favourite books and their older buddies read to them — smiles all around!

Extra lovely to see some sibling pairings too!

2025-2026,Y1 English,Y2 English,Y5 English,Year 1,Year 1/2,Year 2,Year 5 Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 29- You have the right to education that helps to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and to respect the rights of others and respect the environment. Article 31- You have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports music or drama.

Winter Wonderland Walk

27th November 2025Miss K. Wilkinson

Yesterday our Year 1/2 children wrapped up warm and headed out for a snowy winter walk around West Boldon Primary!

We explored our school grounds just like the fox in Coming Home by Michael Morpurgo, using our five senses to notice all the magical wintery details that will help us with our setting descriptions next week.

  • What did we see?
  • What could we hear?
  • What did the snow feel like?
  • What smells told us winter was here?
  • And even—what did the cold taste like?

The children gathered brilliant ideas ready to bring their writing to life. We can’t wait to start creating our own snowy scenes!

2025-2026,Y1 English,Y2 English,Year 1,Year 1/2,Year 2 Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 29- You have the right to education that helps to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and to respect the rights of others and respect the environment.

World Book Day 2024

7th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We love reading at West Boldon Primary so we especially love world book day! The children (and staff) looked fabulous in their outfits and had a lovely day after Miss Ingoe’s class lead an assembly based on reading. We can’t wait for next year.

2023-2024,ARC,Essential Learning Experiences (ELEs),Rec English,Reception,Y1 English,Y2 English,Y3 English,Y4 English,Y5 English,Y6 English,Year 1,Year 1/2,Year 2,Year 3,Year 4,Year 5,Year 6 Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 29- You have the right to education that helps to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and to respect the rights of others and respect the environment.

World Book Day 2022

3rd March 2022Miss K. Wilkinson
WBD logo

This week we celebrated 25 years of World Book Day by coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters.

All around the school, children had a fantastic time completing activities related to World Book Day, reading with their friends and discussing their love of reading!

Here are some photos of us in our costumes…

 

Year 1

Year 1 children dressed for world book day Year 1 children dressed for world book day Year 1 children dressed for world book day
Year 1 completing an activity for world book day 2022
Year 1 completing an activity for world book day 2022
Year 1 completing an activity for world book day 2022

 

Year 2

Year 2 dressed up for World Book Day 2022 Year 2 children enjoying a story on World Book DayYear 2 children dressed for world book day
 

Year 3

Year 3 children dressed up for World Book DayYear 3 children dressed up for World Book Day
 

Year 4
Year 4 children dressed for world book day

Year 4 children dressed up for world book day
Year 4 children dressed up for world book day
Year 4 children dressed up for world book day
Year 4 children playing guess the character
Year 4 children dressed up for world book day
Year 4 children playing guess the character

Year 4 children dressed up for world book day

Year 6 children dressed up for World Book Day
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022
Year 6 completing an activity for World Book Day 2022

Year 6 children dressed up for World Book Day

2021-2022,All News,Y1 English,Y2 English,Y3 English,Y4 English,Y6 English,Year 1,Year 2,Year 3,Year 4,Year 6 Article 28- You have the right to education. Article 29- You have the right to education that helps to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and to respect the rights of others and respect the environment. Article 31- You have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports music or drama.

Year 2 Summer 2 Focus Text

14th June 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
The Tin Forest book cover image

For their final text, Year 2 are reading The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. The story centres around the middle of a windswept wasteland full of discarded scrap metal lives a sad and lonely old man. In spite of his gloomy surroundings, he dreams every night of a lively forest full of trees, birds, and animals. When he finds a broken light fixture that looks like a flower, his imagination is sparked.

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Year 2 Summer 1 Focus Text

1st May 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

During the next half term, our Year 2 focus text will be Cinderella by Susanna Davidson and illustrated by Lorena Alvarez.

This classic fairy tale, specially retold for young children and illustrated with fresh, bright pictures and is a delightful book to explore as a class. As the known fairytale goes, poor Cinderella is made to cook and clean for her stepsisters and her wicked stepmother won’t even let her go to the Royal Ball. But then, in a flurry of sparkles, her Fairy Godmother arrives and everything changes…

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Year 2 Autumn 2 Focus Text

5th November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

As we run up to Christmas time, Year 2 will be reading the festive story ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo.

It is an exciting adventure story about a brave little robin’s long journey home battling through storms, oceans and terrifying hawk attacks.

During the half term we will be writing non chronological reports about robins, diary writing from different characters perspectives and retelling scenes using exciting verbs. In line with Talk for Writing, we will be retelling the story using actions and phrases before innovating the story and changing different elements to create our own narrative.

Here is a video of author Michael Morpurgo telling the story:

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‘Wild’ role play in Year 2

12th October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 2 are studying the text Wild by Emily Hughes.

Look at how much fun they are having freeze framing. Children were asked to reread part of the story and used a picture as a freeze frame. We asked, what is happening here? How is Wild feeling? What could you say?

Year 2 used their senses to describe the picture.

Excellent role playing to help with retelling the story in more detail!

2020-2021,All News,Y2 English,Year 2

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